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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Acting like a man" is the only way Hillary can win.
Thatcher. Meir. Gandhi. Gotta have bigger balls than men to make it.
Men impose this "standard" on us, then kick us when we follow the rules.
We briefly had a female Prime Minister in Canada. But she was "too" feminine. Lost in a landslide.
Bill Maher's wrong. We HAVE to be dicks to get elected to anything. Go Hillary! Would vote for you if I could!
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)More wars = more $$$
Both Iraq and Afghanistan are deeply unpopular. The average person is jaded by wars. If a presentable candidate came along and pledged the wasted money we're spending on wars to be spent on jobs instead, that candidate would ride a wave of popular support to the presidency. Unfortunately providing people with decent paying jobs doesn't benefit the military-industrial complex, who need a constant supply of new threats as justification to fund their industries, not peace.
Peace is terrible unprofitable.
Lolita46
(56 posts)Even a man like Rand Paul will fail.
LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)And pretty damn stupid if you ask me, maybe she has daddy issues or something. Tough in high polictics is usually equated with force and posturing and invasions and shit, do we really think this is a good trait to have over diplomacy? No.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I disagree, with the whole acting like a man/woman thing. I don't know what that even means.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)do.
bhikkhu
(10,732 posts)I know what it means, but I agree - if I had to sit down and come up with illustrative examples from my own experience to explain it to other people, most of those examples would be women.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)She will try to "act" like a man and come off as completely phony doing so. I would gladly vote for her but if she cant figure out who she is she will lose again.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)for how a woman candidate acts?
Wow.